Essential Skills for Workplace Success addresses all students’ ultimate goal - employment.  Students learn to learn and work to improve skills needed to succeed in further education, job training, and employment.  Students enroll in a Communication and a Math class and engage in directed lab activities that include computer-assisted instruction.

Instructors guide students to understand how academics relate to their career choices.  Activities including field trips, special speakers, and workshops help students apply their knowledge to real-life situations such as prepare personal data for resumes, practice oral communication and listening skills for job readiness and interviews, and use test-taking strategies for employment exams.

Whether students need a basic review or if English is not their native language, this Essential Skills program can help in their transition.  Students may re-register or extend their enrollment if they require further training.

Essential Skills Communication Only or Math Only offers students with specific or special academic needs can enroll in either a Communication or a Math class, attending five hours of instructional class and five hours of directed lab each week.  Students’ schedules are determined by instructors’ assessment of their needs.  ES-Communication also accommodates ESL students progressively articulating them into the mainstream Communication class.

Program not under DOE/COP contract

For early withdrawal, refer to Refund Section.
Student enrolling for a second term of Essential Skills may need to purchase new books.

*Student/Sponsoring agency may provide its own insurance coverage (refer to Admission Requirement Section)